Who is Your Daddy?

 "Who is your Daddy?" is a slang expression in America and a rhetorical question normally meant to disgrace someone.  But the question is a valid one, as well.

Let's try to get beyond the negativity of that question in our culture and dig a little deeper to ask, "Who is Your Father?"

There are only two fathers.  God and Satan.  Jesus's favorite term to describe God and His relationship was "Father." This term of endearment was the central figure of Jesus' earthly ministry.  There is something deep within me that yearns when I read three times in Matthew 26 as Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, "O My Father if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me..." 

On the cross, Jesus prayed to the Father, "Father, forgive them..." (Luke 24:34) 

And then as He died, "Father, into Thy hands I commit My Spirit..." (Luke 24: 46)

115 times Jesus refers to God as "Father" in the Gospel of John alone.  

The greatest news for us is Jesus made it possible for us to have God as our Father and call Him "Abba" (Daddy).  (Galatians 4:6)

It is from our fathers two of our greatest needs are answered.  Who am I? What am I to do?

It was this Father who formed Adam in the Garden of Eden giving him his identity and his purpose.

But there is another father.  Jesus told the Jews "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.  He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand for the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it." (John 8:44)

Today, our society is suffering from suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, fear, anxiety, depression, gender questions, and sexual confusion.  Where is this coming from?  God or Satan?

The enemy, the Devil, has been speaking lies about our identity since the beginning.  With Adam, he suggested God was withholding something from him and did not want him to become like Himself.  The first family experienced death by being kicked out of the Garden and then soon came murder as Cain killed Abel.  This is how quickly Satan and his lies work.

All of this can be seen through the lens of disrespecting and questioning the love of the Father.  God, as Father, has the best design for us.  He wants us to succeed, live fully, love wholly, and walk in liberty. But Satan, lies about who we are, what we need to succeed, and the motivations of our Heavenly Father.

Who is your Daddy?  Who are you listening to?  You are walking in somebody's identity of who you are.  Who is it?  The greatest disrespect comes when we do not follow what our Father intends for us.

May the love of the Father fill you this day to know who you are and why you are here.  Now, that is living in love and liberty.